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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Access to computerized Westmoreland County records at hand
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Rich Cholodofsky Public access to Westmoreland County's civil court
records could be restored by today as out-of-state software engineers
worked to ...
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_513475
.html>
Person Most Knowledgeable': Be Prepared To Discuss Company Issues ...
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK
If you cannot locate project files, search thoroughly for the files so
you can honestly testify that you searched "high and low" for the
documents. ...<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=49470>
Court rules content of RAM memory is discoverable
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
As the blog points out, this ruling would require "a party to create
computer records where none before existed." I have no idea how a
company can store
...<http://weblog.infoworld.com/realitycheck/archives/2007/06/court_rules
_con.html>
Data classification: Use brains, not brawn
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... including information lifecycle management (ILM), tiered storage,
e-mail archiving, decision support, data mining, electronic content
management, ...
<http://www.infostor.com/display_article/295382/23/ARTCL/none/none/Data-c
lassification:-Use-brains,-not-brawn/>
Insurance & Technology
Insurers Advance on the ECM Ideal
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suggests a kind of dream state for
an insurance company wherein all types of content can circulate easily
throughout the enterprise, powered by an ECM system enabling the right
users to obtain complete and accurate information any time they need
it, drawing from both structured and unstructured data sources. Such a
dream promises to improve product development, underwriting, claims
processing, customer service, fraud prevention and more.
<http://www.insurancetech.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199900177>
The RNC e-mails represent one more White House demerit.
Slate - USA
But the motivation of the Bush White House in using these accounts
seems clear: to conceal embarrassing communications or evidence of
lawlessness. ...<http://www.slate.com/id/2168757/>
Lawmaker: Cheney sought to abolish Archives office
Federal Times - USA
By DANIEL FRIEDMAN When a small agency in the National Archives and
Records Administration pushed Vice President Dick Cheney's office to
follow standard ...<http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=2850031>
BBC starts testing web archives
T3 - UK
Before unleashing the archives on the unwashed interweb masses, the
Beeb is running a limited beta-trial. We take a closer look. The
archive will eventually ...
<http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/entertainment/other/bbc_starts_testing_web_
archives>
Extensive Destruction' Of White House E-mails Found
National Journal - Washington,DC,USA
Using campaign accounts for official White House business and
destroying administration records are violations of the Hatch Act and
Presidential Records Act ...
<http://thegate.nationaljournal.com/2007/06/extensive_destruction_of_whit
e.php>
House Investigation Uncovers 'Extensive Destruction' Of RNC Emails
AlaskaReport - Juneau,AK,USA
... "extensive destruction" of many of the emails illegally used by the
Bush administration, including all email records for 51 White House
officials.
...<http://alaskareport.com/z46225_roves_criminal_enterprise.htm>
NC town must pay newspaper's legal fees in records dispute
First Amendment Center - Nashville,TN,USA
By AP RALEIGH, NC -- A Dare County judge has ordered the town of Kitty
Hawk to pay a newspaper $75000 to cover legal costs it incurred as it
fought for ...<http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=18703>
Vice President Cheney Defied Security Rules; Turned Away Inspectors
Wired News - USA
... refusing to make annual reports to the National Archive and turning
away classification inspectors, claiming that his office is not an
entitywithin the
...<http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/06/vice-president-.html>
'Interpretive planning' changing landscape of museums
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
A presidential library should provide understanding of that president's
place in history, and give a taste for the tough decisions and the
environment in
...<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/06210
7dnnatbushlibside.3984096.html>
Bush library planner faces delicate balancing act
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
By TODD J. GILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - As the George
W. Bush presidential library comes to life, there will be a wealth of
topics to ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/06210
7dnnatbushlib.3ba3dd6.html>
Report: Public Records Open To Thieves
Guardian Unlimited - UK
From AP By JIM ABRAMS AP Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Identity thieves
continue to have access to Social Security numbers on public documents
despite federal
...<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6726808,00.html>
SSA wants stronger safeguards for SSNs
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
... availability of SSNs by truncating the number, such as providing
only the final four digits, in documents provided to state and local
record-keepers. ...<http://www.fcw.com/article103062-06-21-07-Web>
Kitty Hawk case an important victory for government openness
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
A judge ruled last year that even though the Chatham County Board of
Elections met illegally and withheld public documents, the county had
to pay only 10
...<http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770620084>
Edu Victoria finally gets its documents in order
ZDNet.com.au - Australia
The implementation will also bring the department into compliance with
record storage and retrieval requirements as set out in the Victorian
Electronic ...
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Edu-Victoria-finally-gets-its-
documents-in-order/0,130061733,339278710,00.htm>
Pa. justices uphold public access to audiotapes played in court
Penn Live - Harrisburg,PA,USA
(AP) -- Audiotapes played during preliminary hearings are public
records, even if the tapes are not formally made part of the public
record,
...<http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-51/11824433
50106880.xml&storylist=penn>
Covering the Bases of Electronic Discovery
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
For any hold to be effective, it must be communicated to the
appropriate individuals, including IT staff, records manager and
individual employees.
...<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1182243960
511>
Ohio Data Loss Scope Broadens
NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
According to the state, the storage device containing the personal
information of Ohio employees and some 225000 taxpayers, was not a
laptop, ...
<http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Ohio-Data-Loss-Scope-Broadens/story.xhtml
?story_id=1110078RSZNR>
British Library to secure its digital treasures
by Antony Savvas
Friday 9 June 2006
The British Library is adopting a new data security system that will
enable it to safely store web publishing content.
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/06/09/216361/british-library
-to-secure-its-digital-treasures.htm>
Data retrieval strategies: Document management software overview
Friday 8 June 2007
Data retrieval goes well beyond the scope of email and database systems
to embrace all types of records. While databases contain structured
data and email works with semistructured data, general data retrieval
must address the huge majority of unstructured data in the enterprise,
including documents, presentations and all types of media files.
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/06/08/224524/data-retrieval-
strategies-document-management-software.htm>
Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for ...
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA
See Memorandum of Understanding Between the White House Office of
Records Management and the United States Secret Service Records
Management Program
<http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_59615.shtml>
First In Nation: CA SoS Pulls Voting Machine Co. Source Code Out ...
Brad Blog - USA
The letter requests Iron Mountain, Inc.: Please submit, by guaranteed
overnight delivery to my attention at the address listed above, an
encrypted copy of ...<http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4713>
Wall Street Journal
Civil War Letters Shed Light on Pain Of Troops' Families
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118245751055343871-email.html>
Richard Granger's departure may jeopardise NHS IT programme
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
And so an amorphous national programme without a simple, clear
objective grew around the sound idea of electronic records for everyone
in England. ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/06/26/224976/richard-granger
s-departure-may-jeopardise-nhs-it-programme.htm>
5 agencies earn praise for progress toward electronic records
Federal Times - USA
The Navy's system -- called electronic records management solutions
(ERMS) -- allows it to manage the full range of its information from
electronic records to ...<http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=2853097>
True's Yard launches sound archive of memories
Lynn News - King's Lynn,Norfolk,UK
LYNN'S True's Yard is launching the town's first sound archive to help
safeguard the future of two more Georgian fisherfolk cottages - and
Lynn News readers ...<http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news?articleid=2975060>
Senate Committee Endorses American Archive Project
Earthtimes.org - USA
The Committee believes that this archive of material is a valuable
asset to the public and to historians. Therefore, the Committee intends
that CPB may ...
<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,127222.shtml>
Anne Frank House to receive Frank family archive
Jerusalem Post - Israel
The material, which comes from the Anne Frank Funds (archive) in Basel,
Switzerland, and from Anne's cousin Buddy Elias, includes photos of
Anne, ...
<http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1182409609117&pagename=JPost%
2FJPArticle%2FShowFull>
New digs for Georgetown Historical Society
Brunswick Times Record - ME, United States
GEORGETOWN -- After seven years and at a cost of more than $500000, the
much-anticipated new headquarters of the Georgetown Historical Society
will be ...
<http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/2325F206BCC63A780
52573020066E9D1?Opendocument>
United Airlines works storage smarter
Infoworld - Netherlands
A key to building this tiered infrastructure at United was
understanding the airline's storage requirements and applying smart
information life-cycle ...
<http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E18002573020
0017CBB>
White House: Of Course, the Rules Don't Apply to Cheney
Wired News - USA
The Archivist shall appoint the Director of the Information Security
Oversight Office, subject to the approval of the President. (b) Under
the direction of
...<http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/06/white-house-of-.html>
White House: Visitor logs exempt from laws
CNN International - USA
They have no choice under the Freedom of Information Act, which
provides public access to some records kept by federal agencies. But
the FOIA disclosure law
...<http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/01/cheney.secrecy.ap/>
Harrisburg founder's letter still for sale
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
It ought to be in the state capital, or the State Archives," Klos said.
This was the second auction of items from the Klos collection because
of the divorce ...
<http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1182479122
212620.xml&coll=1>
ÚPN opens archives to public access
Slovak Spectator (subscription) - Bratislava,Slovakia
The National Memory Institute (ÚPN) has posted on its website a list of
the files about collaborators with the Communist-era secret service
(ŠtB). ...<http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok.asp?cl=28210>
Thousands Of Pharmacy Records Left Behind Closed Winn Dixie
WLOX - Biloxi,MS,USA
Upon learning of this, we immediately took measures to collect the
documents for proper destruction." "The violation itself, as far as the
city's laws are
...<http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=6694881&nav=6DJI>
E-mail mess more stupid than scandalous
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
There has also been widespread and extensive destruction of e-mails
that should have been preserved under the 1978 Presidential Records
Act, the report said
...<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/320801_bunting22.html>
Police investigate possible fraud at Plano museum
WFAA (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
On July 18, Collin County records show, a jury convicted him of driving
under the influence. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 13 months
of probation.
...<http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-farms
tead_22met.ART0.West.Edition1.436c3ed.html>
What In-House Counsel Can Learn From Those Lost White House E-Mails
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The lesson is clear: The use of mobile data storage, be it in the form
of memory keys, BlackBerrys or CDs, imposes on organizations the
responsibility to
...<http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1182503148602>
PARIS will be burning n paper records onto CDs and DVDs
Advertiser-News - USA
"They're very unusable in that form," said Dan Freed, Sussex County's
records manager, who is a key figure countywide in helping to bring
records management
...<http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2007/06/23/advertiser_news/news/13
.txt>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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